Job summary
Northumbria Healthcare Foundation Trust (NHCFT) wishes to appoint 4 Educational Mental Health Practitioner trainees to join Northumberland's 'Be You' Mental Health Support Team. The Primary Mental Health Work Service will host the posts building on the Be You teams across County , to work into the Cramlington and Seaton Valley partnership of schools.
These posts involve a 12-month training on the Post graduate Diploma in Emotional Wellbeing in the Educational Environment (EMHP) at University of Northumbria in September 2024. Recruitment will be led by NHCFT and the University of Northumbria, to ensure the clinical and academic requirements are met.
We are looking for enthusiastic staff to join our Be You team providing an early intervention and prevention support to schools. These training posts will provide opportunities to work with current Education Mental Health Practitioners, supporting pupils with children and young people with mild to moderate mental health needs. The posts will work collaboratively with the PMHW team supporting pupils with moderate mental health needs , a Peer mentor worker , Educational Psychologists, a Designated Senior Mental Health Lead in schools Coordinator and our voluntary partner Cygnus.
You will develop skills to deliver the 3 core functions of a mental health in schools team, including low intensity interventions in school settings, whole schools approaches , staff training, consultation, and signposting roles .
Main duties of the job
These posts will be trained to provide support to deliver the 3 core functions of a mental health support team in schools, namely- Delivering evidence-based intervention for children and young people in education setting with mild to moderate mental health problems.
Supporting and facilitating staff in education settings to identify and where appropriate manage issues related to mental health and wellbeing.
To provide advice, support and signposting to schools to ensure that children have access to the right source of emotional well-being and mental health support across the mental health pathways in Northumberland . To work closely with school settings and members of the Be You team and Designated Senior Mental health Leads to deliver whole schools approaches to promote positive well-being and evidenced based prevention programmes.
Post holders will be required to meet the work experience entry requirements for the Trust and the academic requirements for the University of Northumbria at Newcastle.
About us
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality - opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read 'applicant guidance notes' before submitting your application.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Be educationally supervised, supported and assessed oneself to assess and deliver outcome focused, evidence-based interventions in educational settings for children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties.
- Developing skills in supporting children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties, their parents/carers, families and educators in the self-management of presenting difficulties.
- Developing and practicing evidence-based skills under supervisory support of working in partnership with children, young people, their families and educators in the development of plans for the specific intervention and agreeing outcomes.
- Developing and learning the skills required in order to enable children and young people in education, and where appropriate parents/carers to collaborate and coproduce their own agreed plan of care.
- Show evidence in a variety of forms that at all times assessment and intervention is provided from an inclusive values base, which recognises and respects diversity.
- Discuss with supervisors and agree to accept appropriate referrals for children and young people in educational settings, according to agreed local and national and local referral routes, processes and procedures.
- Under supervision, undertake accurate assessments of risk to self and others.
- Engage along with more senior staff in the signposting of referrals for children and young people with more complex needs to the relevant service.
- Engage in robust managerial and clinical supervision, identifying the scope of practice of the individual postholder within the role, and working safely within that scope.
- Gain and practice a range of interventions related to provision of information and support for evidence based psychological treatments, primarily guided self-help.
- Contribute to the development of individual or group clinical materials or training materials and go on to develop further such materials as falls within own degree of competence.
- Ensure that confidentiality is always protected.
- Ensure that any risks or issues related to the safety and wellbeing of anyone the postholder comes into contact with in the course of their professional duties are communicated and shared with appropriate parties in order to maintain individual safety and the public interest.
- Successful post holders will be placed within the Primary mental health work service and will commence a 12 month Post Graduate Diploma in Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing Studies in the Education Environment (EMHP) at the University of Northumbria Newcastle in September 2024 . As these training posts are a Level 7 Masters level programme aimed at developing trainees into qualified Education Mental Health Practitioners (EMHPs), entry to the programme will be through a value based interview within NHCFT leading to subsequent employment as a trainee EMHP with NHCFT.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Good solid basic literacy and numeracy qualifications at a minimum of level 2
- Applicants must have as a minimum a Foundation degree, DipHE, HND or equivalent this will enable applicants to access the degree level training for the post. Or an equivalent level of relevant experience, with a proven record of previous learning or formal study in child development, wellbeing or mental health
Experience and Knowledge
Essential
- Experience of working with children and young people and an understanding of the education system in England is highly desirable
Other requirements
Essential
- It is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid driving licence and is either a car owner and able to use the car for work purposes, or has a Trust personal lease vehicle which may be used for the role. However, the Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website .
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants .
Employer details
Employer name
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Blyth Central Family Hub
103 Wright street Blyth
Blyth
NE241HG